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Should polls close automatically after a year??

Most of those polls popping up lately have already exceeded their best before date and suck out the air of polls from the present. Do you think polls should close automatically after at least a year to prevent misusage?

Maybe Marzo as an archenemy was the biggest thing to happen to Mekaneck, but as far as Marzo was concerned...it was Tuesday.

yeah, the old ones do get a bit confusing.....I'll be like sweet a new poll....then I'll see the date and be like ***! Don't get why people would drudge up outdated polls unless they're not realizing they're outdated........in which case this would solve that!

Whoever is digging up the old polls should read first, then vote, It's stupid to vote on something so old and out of date. But Whatever on the poll closings, people should just stop dredging the pond and make new up to date polls instead. I'm sure that's not against the rules since the polls would be so different.

I voted yes. Same here, I log in and I'm like WOW new polls, just to see it's like "Will He-Ro be released" or "What was your favite SDCC reveal in 2009".....All polls are genuinly fun, infomrative and important....but so many are well out dated. I think they should be locked after a certain period of time, but still viewable of course.

No, b/c some stay relevant after a year. Some of the discussions that are brought back up sometimes are good. But most of the crap being dredged up lately is out of date, or pointless. Just someone doing it for a laugh, I suppose.

Relevancy is an issue here. Sometimes the poll can be relevant other times it's information that isn't useful anymore.

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What about a remainder message to the original poster after some time? (Each 6 months?) So that she/he can decide it it's still relevant or not. (No idea if that's automatizable with the forum software though.)

No, b/c some stay relevant after a year. Some of the discussions that are brought back up sometimes are good. But most of the crap being dredged up lately is out of date, or pointless. Just someone doing it for a laugh, I suppose.

I agree they can still be important after a year no doubt. However some discretion can be used in closing them, like if a particular year (like 2009) or con (SDCC 2011) is still active, those could be locked but still viewable.

Originally Posted by GozzoMan

What about a remainder message to the original poster after some time? (Each 6 months?) So that she/he can decide it it's still relevant or not. (No idea if that's automatizable with the forum software though.)

when you create a poll, you have the chance of choose when it expires.

If people don't use this is probably because they don't want to.

That's not exactly the point.

Example: if you make a poll about how you expect Modulok to be, it's obsolete when Modulok is released, but you don't know beforehand when Modulok will be released.
If 7 months after you opened the poll Modulok is actually released (or announced in detail), you know 7 months after that it's time to close the poll.